THe Univ. of Cincinnati has a "black graduation", but it is called somthing else ) I can't think of the name). I thought it was more of a paradoy, if you will, of graduation because each graduate can march down the aisle to their own choice of music, folks clap, cheer, and holla, and people are just there having a good time. They started this because obvisously at the regular university graduation you can not do such things and some folks felt that a graduation IS a celebration (I went to an HBCU and you couldn't fo those things either).
I think instead of calling it "black graduation" (because I know there are some other races that want to hoot and holla for their family members) it should maybe be just some type of alternative celebration by another name. As tickledpink and Nupe has stated earlier, a "black graduation" just opens up a can of worms that we as African Americans are trying to move past.
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